Kastul laughed harshly. "On the contrary, Frederick. We are not the ones who have abandoned their duty to the Republic and the innocents in this Galaxy, the Council and the Council's followers are. The Council has bound the Jedi in a web of doubt for too long. We cannot afford that, not in the face of what Mandalore and those like him bring. The Jedi have abandoned the cause, and we have taken it, thus, we are the Jedi."